BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 24th May 2020
Charles Hazlewood is a conductor and the founder of Paraorchestra, the world's first professional ensemble of disabled musicians.
Once described as the Heston Blumenthal of orchestral music, Charles has spent his career challenging Britain’s musical palate, exploding boundaries and expanding our ideas about what an orchestra can be - and do.
His repertoire encompasses Beethoven, Bruckner and Barry White, and his critically-acclaimed projects include more than 100 world premieres and the first orchestral headline performance at Glastonbury. Paraorchestra, the ensemble he established in 2011, reached a global audience at the closing ceremony of the 2012 London Paralympics. He also co-founded an opera company in South Africa, and its production of Carmen, with a mainly black cast, won international acclaim.
He studied music at Keble College, Oxford and was the Organ Scholar there. He won the EBU conductor's competition in 1995 and has had an international career as a conductor.
Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Sarah Taylor
Barry White & Love Unlimited Orchestra - Somebody's Gonna Off The Man [Island/Def Jam]
Terry Riley - A Rainbow In Curved Air [Esoteric]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Ach, Ich Fühls [Great Recordings Of The Century]
Richard Strauss - R. Strauss: 4 Lieder, Op. 27 - 4. Morgen! [Philips]
Olivier Latry - Improvisation [Naïve Classique]
Paraorchestra - Kraftwerk-Rewerk
Pauline Malefane & Andile Tshoni & Dimpho Di Kopane & Imbumba Symphony Orchestra - Ndisakuthanda Mna [Classical]
Pauline Oliveros - The Last Time/Ultima Vez [Deep Listening]
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